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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse_at_wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:02:58 -0600
In the January/February issue of The Horn Book Magazine , HB Exec utive Editor Martha V. Par ravano announced a new series of columns recognizing seventy-five years of the Caldecott Medal. These columns will be written by CCBC Direc tor Kath leen T. Horning. Because she's too modest, she probably will not announce the series to the CCBC- Net community hers elf.
Martha writes that K.T. will "examine one winning book per decade
, f ocusing each time on a book that spo tlights the developing identity of the American picture book. K.T .'s inau gural column appears in this issue, beginning with the 1930s and Thomas Handforth's now nearly forgotten Mei Li. In print, Horning focuse s on how Mei Li helped the na scent children's book field answer the questio n 'What is a picture book? ' Online
, you will find her fascinating research into the background of author-illustrator Handforth, the China he discovered on his world travels, and the real little girl who became the inspiration for the character Mei Li..."
Rea d the article in the print issue of the Jan/Feb Horn Book, and also read the online background material http://www.hbook.com/horn-book-magazine Click on Recent Posts.
This is one of the quite gl orious ways to observe th is Caldecott 75th anniversary year so carefully planned by Tessa Michaelson Schmidt and her ALA/ALSC committee ! For more information, visit
http://www.ala.org/alsc/Caldecott75
It's a timely underscori ng of the upco ming announcement of the 2013 Caldecott Medal winn er.
And what a valuable resource it is for countless fu ture readings and uses. It's one more substantial contribution offered to the book community by T he Horn Book and by K.T. whose spe eches and arti cles are consistently significant.
Peace, Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse Emerita Director, CCBC, School of Education, UW-Mad ison gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
Received on Wed 09 Jan 2013 10:02:58 AM CST
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:02:58 -0600
In the January/February issue of The Horn Book Magazine , HB Exec utive Editor Martha V. Par ravano announced a new series of columns recognizing seventy-five years of the Caldecott Medal. These columns will be written by CCBC Direc tor Kath leen T. Horning. Because she's too modest, she probably will not announce the series to the CCBC- Net community hers elf.
Martha writes that K.T. will "examine one winning book per decade
, f ocusing each time on a book that spo tlights the developing identity of the American picture book. K.T .'s inau gural column appears in this issue, beginning with the 1930s and Thomas Handforth's now nearly forgotten Mei Li. In print, Horning focuse s on how Mei Li helped the na scent children's book field answer the questio n 'What is a picture book? ' Online
, you will find her fascinating research into the background of author-illustrator Handforth, the China he discovered on his world travels, and the real little girl who became the inspiration for the character Mei Li..."
Rea d the article in the print issue of the Jan/Feb Horn Book, and also read the online background material http://www.hbook.com/horn-book-magazine Click on Recent Posts.
This is one of the quite gl orious ways to observe th is Caldecott 75th anniversary year so carefully planned by Tessa Michaelson Schmidt and her ALA/ALSC committee ! For more information, visit
http://www.ala.org/alsc/Caldecott75
It's a timely underscori ng of the upco ming announcement of the 2013 Caldecott Medal winn er.
And what a valuable resource it is for countless fu ture readings and uses. It's one more substantial contribution offered to the book community by T he Horn Book and by K.T. whose spe eches and arti cles are consistently significant.
Peace, Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse Emerita Director, CCBC, School of Education, UW-Mad ison gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
Received on Wed 09 Jan 2013 10:02:58 AM CST
